Ali gets into Harry Potter fan fiction, starting with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2025)
story · status: told 3× · last event: told (2025-08-15) · owner: Ali
About: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, The Debt of Time, fan fiction
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-21 | told | Ali used to think fan fiction was just random romance smut, but Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality changed his view. | Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? 00:00:00 |
| 2025-08-08 | retold | Ali has recently got into Harry Potter fan fiction and spent many hours reading it this week (week of 4 August 2025). | Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This 00:41:53 |
| 2025-08-15 | told | Ali has been reading The Debt of Time since finishing Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, his first Harry Potter fan fiction, and says he is now fully on the fan fiction hype. | The best Harry Potter fanfiction? 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
15 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — recommendation: Ali, a massive Harry Potter fan, calls the fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality the best Harry Potter book he has ever read. — 00:00:00
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali says he has been addicted to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality for about the last three weeks and has gushed about it to all his friends who enjoy Harry Potter. — 00:00:00
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is about 600,000 words long, Ali says. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is free, at hpmor.com as Ali recalls it, because all Harry Potter fan fiction is free: it cannot be charged for. (hedged) — 00:00:29
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali: The fan community made a proper audiobook of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, with voice actors and background music, Ali says. — 00:00:29
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali: In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Aunt Petunia marries an Oxford science professor instead of Vernon Dursley, so Harry grows up reading science, history and philosophy and arrives at Hogwarts a mega nerd. — 00:00:58
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali finds the emotional issues of Harry in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, who has few friends and does not know how to relate to normal people, absolutely brilliant. — 00:00:58
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — Ali says he has no affiliation with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and no one makes money from it. — 00:01:27
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — recommendation: Ali tells Harry Potter fans who have not read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to drop whatever they are doing and download it: put the EPUB on a Kindle or read it online. — 00:01:27
- 2025-07-21 · Is This the Best Harry Potter Book Ever? — recommendation: Ali advises going into Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality completely blind, avoiding all spoilers, not even looking at the chapter titles on its website. — 00:01:57
- 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — Ali finished his second Harry Potter fan fiction, The Debt of Time by the pseudonymous author ShayaLonnie, on the morning of the video and cried for hours afterwards. — 00:00:00
- 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — Ali: The Debt of Time is about 700,000 words long, Ali says, while Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is 257,000 words. — 00:00:00
- 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — Ali: After Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Ali thought nothing could be better fan fiction, then searched Reddit for recommendations and came across The Debt of Time. — 00:00:36
- 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — recommendation: Ali calls the Harry Potter fan fiction The Debt of Time absolutely incredible: an emotional rollercoaster with amazing plots and characters. — 00:00:36
- 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — Ali: The Debt of Time starts after the events of Half-Blood Prince: with Dumbledore killed by Snape, Hermione finds a way to bring Sirius back from the dead, and the rest follows from that decision. — 00:00:36